Suraj Saste

Product Manager

India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded two successful tech startups.
  • Led product management for global-scale SaaS products.
  • Achieved over $1.2 million in sales.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with strong entrepreneurial experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyProduct ManagementStakeholder ManagementEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

AcquisionAutoCADC++Customer RetentionEnglishEvent PlanningFeature Requirement DocumentationGrowth StrategiesLeadershipManagementMonetizationOnboardingProduct AdoptionProduct AnalyticsProduct Documentation

About

I started my entrepreneurship journey right after engineering by co-founding a tech startup. Over the next 5 years, I built 2 tech startups with more than $300k in funding and $1.2mn in sales. After 5 years of building startups and mixed success, I moved from founder to working in product management for startups. For the next 4 years, I worked on products with global scale and $ Millions in revenue. My overall 9 years of diverse B2B experience in building startups and scaling SaaS products has strengthened my skills in product, revenue strategy, and GTM by impacting thousands of users. I am a problem solver at heart with a passion for delightful user experience and attention to detail. Apart from work, I love to read books, travel, play badminton, and live an active lifestyle.

Experience

Birdeye

Senior Product Manager

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • Working on building the Conversational AI products for 150k+ businesses Birdeye serves

Avoma

Senior Product Manager

May 2022Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • Product Strategy and Roadmap 🧠
  • 1. First Product Manager (Employee #19) at Avoma and set up many product practices from scratch.
  • 2. Worked on product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Conversation and Revenue Intelligence solutions, aligning with the overall company goals and market trends that achieved a consistent NPS of 61-68.
  • 3. Conducted Market research and competitive analysis to identify customer needs, market opportunities, and potential areas for product differentiation.
  • Customer Focus 🤝
  • 1. Developed a deep understanding of customer needs, pain points, and workflows in the Conversation and Revenue Intelligence domain.
  • 2. Conducted customer interviews, surveys, and usability studies to gather insights and validate product hypotheses.
  • Product Development and Execution 🛠
  • 1. Launched Avoma scheduler, Forecasting, and Deal risk products from scratch that helped Avoma unlock new areas of revenue growth and achieve the vision of an “All-in-one” solution in the category with more than 100% YoY growth.
  • 2. Led numerous end-to-end AI projects for note-taking, email intelligence, and productivity features making the customer workflows smarter and more efficient.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration 📌
  • 1. Collaborated with GTM teams (Marketing, Sales, and Customer success) to empower them with resources such as Product Documentation, FAQs, Talk Tracks, Feature comparison, Objection handling, Product launches, etc.
  • 2. Conducting bi-weekly GTM trainings to strengthen the GTM team's product know-how which can result in superior customer experience from trial support to success teams.
Product Strategycompetitive analysisProduct Led GrowthProduct DocumentationMonetizationSaaS Pricing+5

Coditas

Product Manager

Feb 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • 1. Led the largest product team of engineers at coditas with 3 APMs and a total of 90 Devs and QAs
  • 2. Worked on a US Healthcare Product with a scale of more than 400k customers and $10 Mn+ revenue from software product
  • 3. Responsible to align the internal and external stakeholders to scope the requirements to meet the larger vision of the product
  • 4. Responsible for the product roadmap and strategy to prioritize the impact and scalability of the features by using Agile Methodology
  • 5. Contributed to Coditas BA practices to meet larger company goals
Stakeholder ManagementFeature Requirement DocumentationProduct DocumentationProduct AnalyticsWireframingProduct Roadmap+4

Aker foods agrotech pvt ltd

Co-Founder and CEO

Dec 2018Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • 1. As a founder responsible for company Strategy, Product, and Finance
  • 2. Raised $200k funding within a year from Mumbai Angle networks in India, built & led a team of 35 people
  • 3. Successfully implemented the Ordering platform for B2B customers with an acquisition strategy serving the likes of Subway, Haldiram, Swiggy, Farzi Cafe, Zomato, and 200+ customers
  • 4. Scaled the annual revenue of the company to $600k
  • 5. During COVID built a B2C channel resulting in deploying the Flutter app to cater to a 6k user base with 55% user retention for daily delivery of goods
Software as a Service (SaaS)Entrepreneurship

Quark experiences pvt. ltd.

Co Founder and Chief Operating Officer

Jan 2016Jan 2019 · 3 yrs · Pune Area, India

  • 1. As a founder responsible for company Strategy, Product, sales, hiring, and Finance
  • 2. Responsible for the management of all Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Projects with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, etc.
  • 3. Managed customers & internal stakeholders to deliver projects with the likes of Runwal, Rustomjee, Cipla, Welspun, Piramal, RPG, etc
  • 4. Raised $100k funding, built & led a team of 15 people
  • 5. Conceptualized and Developed a visualization SAAS product for the Real estate and Automobile industry
  • 6. Automated books of accounts with the Quickbooks platform

Entrepreneurship development cell- viit

4 roles

Co-convener of Vishwapreneur 2016

Oct 2015Apr 2016 · 6 mos · Pune

  • Vishwapreneur is an annual flagship event of the Entrepreneurship Development Cell, VIIT, Pune. The event is a platform for budding entrepreneurs to have an opportunity to listen to guest speakers and panelists from various industries and have an interaction with them. All the budding entrepreneurs also get an opportunity to network with each other to build great future teams.
  • Vishwapreneur also hosts the biggest Bplan competition in Pune with a cash prize worth INR 75,000.

Vice-President and Industrial Relations Manager

Jun 2014May 2015 · 11 mos

  • As a vice president my role is to handle all external collaborations of the cell. As an industrial relations manager I coordinate with industry relations of EDC-VIIT and try to bridge a gap between our members and various industries. Whatever industrial visits and industrial interaction taken place goes through me. We at EDC believe that industrial and practical life experiences are the only things which will keep us standout from everyone else. Since we have people from different branches I take care that all industries are covered so that everyone get knowledge and insight about everyone's field or sector and it also helps in having a diversified knowledge of all branches. Along with that am also a part of sponsorship team with which I will be coordinating throughout the year.

Sponsorship Coordinator

Sep 2013May 2014 · 8 mos

  • Vishwapreneur is an annual flagship event of Entrepreneurship Development Cell-Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune. Where the vision is to inculcate and support an entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students.If someone wants to get updates of this event or follow it can visit www.vishwapreneur.com

Team Lead

Aug 2012Aug 2013 · 1 yr

  • One of the most enthusiastic organizations of Vishwakarma Institute Of Information Technology, which always helps and supports the budding Entrepreneurs and the people with the same thinking.

Enactus

Student incharge

Jan 2015Jan 2016 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

  • As a student in charge my role is to guide and help my team achieve excellence in the project given. The project includes the manufacturing of solar street lamp and installing it at rural or remote places of Maharashtra. Motto is to provide people with clean and uninterrupted source of energy and help uplifting their livelihood.

Vibrant gujarat

Seminar Delegate

Jan 2015Jan 2015 · 0 mo · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • The preparation of 7th Vibrant Gujarat Summit, which is planned during 11th to 13th January 2015 at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India have began well ahead by the Government of Gujarat after the Vibrant Gujarat 2013 Summit resounding success.summit has given an example of a visionary approach of the Government of Gujarat towards inclusive and sustainable development. summit provided enormous prospects to the State to display its strengths, progressive stand, initiatives taken to improve governance, investor friendly climate and art & culture of Gujarat.

Mahindra navistar automotives ltd.

Intern

Jun 2013Jun 2013 · 0 mo · Pune Area, India

  • Intern

Education

Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2016

GrowthX®

Product & Growth Program

Jun 2023Dec 2023

Fergusson College

HSC — Science and Electronics

Jan 2010Jan 2012

New English School

SSC — Maths and Science

Jan 2004Jan 2010

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